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L. P. WHITBMAN. Jar for M1k,&o.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LOUIS P. WHITEMAN, OF NEWT YORK, N. Y.

JAR FOR MILK, SLC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 225,900, dated March 23, 1880.

Application filed January 31, 1880.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, LoUIs P. W IIITEMAN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Jars for Mill; and other Articles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide for using, in conjunction with a glass jar furnished with a cover of the same material, a desirable fastening for retaining the cover in place.

To this end my invention consists in the combination, with a glass jar and a glass cover therefor, provided on the exterior with a boss having a groove extending transversely across the top and a circumferential groove or projection just below the top, of a bail-like wire for fastening the cover in place, ittin'g in the said transverse groove, and a cap-piece of metal or other suitable material tting over the top of the said boss, and having its edges creased over or otherwise made to engage with the circumferential groove or projection, whereby the bail-like wire is etectually secured to the glass cover and the desired end is attained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a central vertical section of the upper part of a glassjar cover and fastener embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the cap-piece above named detached, and Fig. 3 is a side View of a cover and transverse seetion of a cap-piece and bail embodying my invention in a slightly-modified forni.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the gures.

A designates the upper part of a jar of glass, which may be of any suitable shape, and B designates a glass cover fitting in the mouth of the jar, and furnished with a ilange overlapping the mouth of the jar, and sealing it with the aid of a packing-ring, p, preferably of cork.

On the exterior of the cover is a boss, u, formed of glass in the same piece with the cover. Across the top of this boss is a transverse groove, b, in which fits a bail-like wire, O. In a boss, a, is a circumferential groove, c, near the top thereof.

D designates a cap-piece, of sheet metal, which is tted over the top of the boss a, and

has its edges tamped, creased, or otherwise bent and turned into the circumferentialgroove o. The edges of this cap-piece bear on the bail-like wire O and retain it in the transverse groove b, securing the cover B to the bail-like wire, so that it may turn or swivel on the said wire.

In Fig. 3 I have shown a glass cover, B, like the one above described, but having a boss, a', provided with a transverse groove, b, but having a projection or screw-thread, d. formed eircumierentially on its exterior.

D designates a cap-piece of sheet metal or other suitable material, provided internally with a screw-thread, whereby it is secured to the boss a. Its edges bear against the baillike wire O and hold it in the groove, as in the above-described example of my invention.

The ends of the bail-like wire U have a pivotal connection with a lever, Gr, consisting of a bow-shaped wire litting the neck of the jar A, when the cover is in place, having loops l, formed by twisting it, for the reception of the bail-1ike wire O, and having arms m, bent up from these loops nearly at right angles to its main portion and fastened to a neck-wire, 1I. The fastening thus produced is of a form conimon in bottles, and provides for releasing the cover B easily by pushing against the arms m, so as to force the bow portion of the lever GA away from the neck of the jar, and it provides for readily fastening the cover, when in place, by forcing the bow portion ofthe leverGr into contact with the neck of thejar.

By my invention I provide for packing Inilk in a jar having a cover of glass and a secure and convenient fastening for the cover, which has the cover attached to it. As the contents of the jar come in contact only with glass, its quality will not become impaired thereby. As glass is a non conductor of electricity, milk contained in the ]'ar will be kept sweet during thunder-storms.

The jars and covers can be easily and thoroughly cleansed, and owing to the attachment of the cover to its fastening it is not liable to be lost or mislaid.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a glass jar and a glass cover therefor, provided on the exterior with a boss having a groove extending transversely across, and a oireulnferential groove or pro- 5 jeetion just below the top, of a hail-like wire for fastening the oever in plaee, iibtiing in said transverse groove, and a cap piece of metal or other suitable material having its edges creased over or otherwise made to engage with JPhe circumferential groove or projection` sub- Io stantially as and for the purpose specified.

LOUIS P. WIVIITEMAN.

VVitinesses F. P. Jessup, UHANDLER HALL. 

